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Spasskoye-Kurkino Estate

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The Rezans family, the original owners of the Spasskoye-Kurkino estate, were large landowners who invested significant effort and resources into the development of their estate and its improvement. From 1828 to 1832, Fyodor Dmitrievich Rezans owned 139 villages and settlements across four districts of the Vologda province. To give significance to his estate, he built a stone church of the Transfiguration in 1818 at his own expense.

The Kurkino estate included a semi-stone manor house, a stone wing, a sandy balcony (a covered sandbox for children to play in during rain), a wooden music pavilion where an orchestra of 40 musicians played, and its twin. The estate also featured a vast park with birch and linden alleys, circular paths, and gazebos, a greenhouse, a white courtyard in front of the stables, a cascade of ponds with islands, a bathing area for children, and numerous outbuildings. To this day, the estate mansion, the wing, the music pavilion, and the wooden building of the former almshouse, created for the disabled and orphans during World War I by the last owner’s wife L.A. Andreeva (Gizetti), have survived. The English park in the shape of a two-headed eagle has also been preserved, with linden trees planted in place of the lost 'head' in the spring of 2015 by schoolchildren, teachers, and activists under the guidance of Nikolai Saikin. The cascade of four artificial ponds remains intact. Nearby the last pond is the 'deer park', a forest area where deer were bred for hunting. The Rezans-Andreevs were also known horse breeders; a horse is depicted on their coat of arms.

The main house of the estate, a semi-stone, two-story building with mezzanines, is constructed from larch, known for its durability. The facade is adorned with a powerful portico featuring six wooden columns of the Doric order and a light triangular pediment.

Currently, various celebrations, charity concerts, historical reenactments, and master classes take place on the estate's grounds. The first ball in a century, the Victory Ball, was held here, and the views of the estate inspire artists for plein air painting. The estate is frequently visited by descendants of the Rezans-Andreevs, Anatoly Vladimirovich Andreev from St. Petersburg and his daughter Svetlana Anatolyevna from Po, France. S.A. Andreeva participated in the II International Festival of Folk Crafts 'Voice of Crafts' and gifted her competition work, a tea set depicting the estate, to the future museum of the estate.

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Усадьба Спасское-Куркино

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